After the end of the Second World War, only one military tribunal tried and convicted Japanese forces for coercing women into prostitution and sexual slavery as a crime of war during their occupation – the Dutch’s tribunal in Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia). The Batavia War Crimes Tribunal Project is a one-year project researching enforced prostitution in international criminal law through the prism of the Batavia War Crimes Tribunal.

The project has collected and translated the original tribunal documents, annotated them, and made them available on a public website along with related documents, legislation, and research. The next phase of the project is to organise an academic event on “Sex Crimes during Armed Conflicts, from the Batavia Tribunal to the Present”.

China Law Translate is a free, volunteer-run, open-access online community translation project resource where anyone can read, translate and annotate the laws of the People’s Republic of China. The Project provided an opportunity for groups from different schools, organisations, and nations to collaborate in providing valuable translations of these important documents.

The Centre for Rights and Justice group translated the five cases in the Guiding Cases Set 4 issued by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate in 2014. The cases all concern food and product safety crimes, as well as crimes relating to lax food safety supervision.